Talk to any divorced / separated guy where the dust has settled and it is all rear view mirror shit.
It’s the same as talking to a cancer survivor, they may well be able to put one or two X’s on the calendar and say this is the day I got handed that sheet of paper by the doctor, this is the day I first coughed up blood, but asking them when it all started, and when it all ended, that’s a hmmmm question, maybe several pots of coffee later you’ll get a final definitive answer they are happy with, accuracy wise.
But, by the same token, ask them, are you divorced, are you separated, are you beating cancer, is your marriage over, these all have pretty much instant “yep” or “nope” answers.
They are all talking about processes that happen and evolve over time, but from one perspective you are trying to place markers in that timeline to divide it up into chapters or sections like a storybook, and the other perspective is simply asking is it history yet?
If it is still unravelling, it isn’t history, and if it isn’t history, you have no idea where you are in the timeline of events, is this the end, sure feels like it, or maybe it is just the end of chapter one, and there are 11 more chapters to go, and with hindsight, it was only in chapter 5 that shit really started to get crazy…
The primal folly of being human is something that you can hear all military types who went off to a hot war say, after the event, “we never really thought *we* would get killed”.
Of course, by definition, only the survivors get to speak, but even so, what sort of fucking idiot thinks you can go off to WAR, WAR FOR FUCKS SAKE, and not really think that it does anything other than *dramatically* increase your chances of dying young.
No, *you* fucks can all go off to war, I’ll stay behind and fuck your wives and girlfriends up the ass.
No, prophecy is a tricky business, I knew one guy years ago, fellow biker, no fear at all, not much sense either, I used to always say to him that he was gonna fucking kill hisself, he always laughed, still here aren’t I asshole, I went away for nearly a year, came back, down the pub, hey, it’s a Friday night, where’s JC?
Dead, months ago now, lost it blatting over the downs, went head first straight into that big granite milestone on the corner at seventy…..
oohhhh….
But, prophecy isn’t just tough when it comes to individual events, it also applies to whole series of things, I’ll be honest with you, at 16 I had no real idea how my life was going to turn out, what I was going to do, or amount to, or where I would go, or what I would be.
Looking back, I can’t say any of it was unpredictable, nevertheless, at no point did I have any future insights that were worth a handful of shit.
And if my oracle of delphi act falls flat on its face when I try to apply it to something as insignificant as my own life, what hope is there for looking at western society as a whole?
Sure, I can do like I did with JC back in the day and say you’re a mad fucker who is going to end up badly, but calling how or when or to what extent, no way.
JR was another one from back in the day, now, he wasn’t a mad fucker, he just wasn’t a lucky fucker, he died last year, but it took him 5 years to go, he got totaled by a blind fuck in a Volvo, ended up a T5 paraplegic, ended up with just over a quarter of a million compo, of course, the insurance company being bastards knew that being a T5 paraplegic really fucks your life expectancy, so instead of paying him the lump sum, they offered him 40k up front at 20k a year for 11 years, which meant they trousered 120k when he died after 5.
He sure as hell didn’t predict he’d end up like that, nor, I suppose, did the blind fuck in the volvo, who apparently lost a leg as well.
It’s the problem I have when people ask me for advice.
All I can offer them is all I have myself, there are some strategies that you can implement, some things you can try and avoid, trying to position yourself so you can adapt to whatever does come down the pipe, apart from that it is suck it and see, I got no more idea than you, in the words of the Goose, I just got here myself man.
This dipshit, familiarity breeds contempt, playing with toys that he thinks will allow him to get a shot off fractions of a second quicker than with the bog standard safety method, compare that with a guy who takes a full send to draw or even a second and a half, but who always hits what he aims at, at range too, and by range I mean 75 metres… knew a guy who could do that all day long, hit coke cans at 75 metres with a 9 mm, never fucking missed, his draws weren’t quick though…,. at 50 metres he could hit them swinging…
It’s like the old revolver thing where you only loaded 5 and always kept an empty chamber under the hammer, just in case, and the standard response to the question “what if you need more than 5 rounds” was two fold, you’re fucked, and you shouldn’t a bin there in the first fucking place…
5 rounds to ol Jake was 5 headshots.
Like those guys who play pool, who once they get one ball sunk they always just get on and clean the table, if you are as good as them, it’s all down to sinking one off the break, if you ain’t as good as them, you may as well just hand over the ten and walk away from the table, never having picked up the cue.
Course old Jake learned to shoot “barking”, I had no idea what barking was, and he explained it to me, you had one long gun, that was it, probably a fairly large calibre, never any optical sights, too fragile, so you wanted something to eat, say a squirrel.. but sometimes a bird.
If you aimed AT the squirrel, you blew the shit out of it, there was nothing left to eat, so you aimed at the bark, not the branch itself, but the bark, that the fucker was stood on, so we are talking better than bullet diameter accuracy or you go hungry, get it right and the bark burst upwards, stunning, breaking bones and sometimes even outright killing dinner, that fucker could *shoot*, I can remember him picking up an old .308 and firing at an ant hill a *good* 400 yards away across the river, and standing behind with binocs watching the bullet, he would hit that ant hill every fucking shot.
Ol Jakes advice about being in a gunfight would echo mine about life, if you are in a place where shaving 0.5 seconds off your draw time is significant, you already fucked up, and you *still* better off hitting what you want with every single shot.
eg there *may* be theoretical situations where the cowboy quick draw is the deciding factor, for values of the truly exceptional people who can already shoot the balls off a gnat at 50 paces while drunk in the rain and in the dark too… for everyone else, it is just an exercise in burning up your limited time doing anything *but* the few things you could do in theory that might actually make a difference.
That’s the other difficult thing about prophecy, even if your advice is fucking good, which it is unlikely to be unless it is fairly vague and addresses your PRESENT weaknesses, chances are, whoever is getting the “benefit” of it won’t wanna hear what you have to say.
But the biggest difficulty of all with prophecy is that the penalty for being right is often worse than the penalty for being wrong, I have literally lost count of the number of people who literally will not speak to me any more, because they asked me what I thought about some business venture or some romantic involvement or some family problem, and like a fucking idiot I told them exactly what I thought, eg it has about 999 ways to go very badly wrong and fuck you up, and they ignored it, and it did go wrong and fuck them up.
Prophecy, you see, is useless to those who do not want to change themselves, they just want to avoid certain outcomes, nooo man, they will say, you ain’t listening, I’m not trying to avoid the casino, or the roulette table, I’m trying to avoid letting it all ride on 13 black and LOSING, hey…
The only way *that* can happen is if others are forced to change what they do, in order to accommodate *you* not changing what you do and still reducing the risks to you.
See this guy, even with an open chamber, he never sweeps the camera guy.
Plus, he does the opposite of the doofus above, this guy is all KISS all the way down.
and the proof, 425 yard shot with a 9 milli, first shot on target.
impressive
After spending years reading everything I could find, practicing on my own, traveling thousands of miles to learn, and teaching others about marksmanship, I was surprised at how many people didn’t take basic safety seriously. My old friends who wouldn’t be safe with a gun were EXACTLY the ones who blame you when you prophecize their fuckups. They were also the ones most likely to get others hurt in dangerous places or jobs.
“I’m not trying to avoid the casino, or the roulette table, I’m trying to avoid letting it all ride on 13 black and LOSING,”
Exactly that kind of mentality
It all makes me think of Flashman, seeing all these crazy people who are determined to get everyone around them killed, and no one else notices.
Also, I think your idea of letting people come to you is the way to go. I wanted the knowledge and skills– I hunted them down. Anyone who won’t do the same is a waste of time at best.
Comment by random redneck — August 26, 2014 @ 5:55 pm
Amen to all of that
Comment by wimminz — August 26, 2014 @ 6:27 pm
“WAR FOR FUCKS SAKE, and not really think that it does anything other than *dramatically* increase your chances of dying young.”
But that’s just the fun part. 😉
Comment by Digger Nick — August 27, 2014 @ 11:02 am
I’m surprised you haven’t commented on this yet:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
“At least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, a report has found.
Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated, it said.
Council leader Roger Stone said he would step down with immediate effect.
Mr Stone, who has been the leader since 2003, said: “I believe it is only right that as leader I take responsibility for the historic failings described so clearly.”
A non-MSM analysis:
http://mangans.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/rotherham.html?m=1
Comment by freeman — August 28, 2014 @ 9:29 pm
I have some emotional difficulty…. you see, back in 1988/9 I knew a young girl from Bradford, another urban area lying in the Manchester / Leeds / Sheffield triangle along with Rotherham.
She claimed to have been gang raped by local Asians, and for what it is worth, even as an FRA victim and one who innately disbelieves all allegations of rape as a first response, I believed her at the time, and even in hindsight 26 years later I still do…. of course there is a far more detailed backstory that I will not relate here, but it was apparently a known thing even then.
Which means it was old news at least ten / fifteen years prior to this “news”.
If you are interested and start doing searches on Elm House and other cases, it would appear that systemic ritualised child abuse has been known about, covered up by, and in some instances participated in, by those in power, since the 1960’s at the very *latest*… possibly long before then, who knows.
Those “ethnic” areas of the country are a completely different country to the area I live in, and that goes back to the start of mass immigration at least, and that goes back to the end of WW2.
Yes, it is true, in the 50’s when the po-po here were basically 99% white males and ex military to boot, there was *rampant* “racism”, as in blacks and asians were targeted greatly, but now, 60 years later, nobody asks WHY, nor do they ask if perhaps the racial stigma of being black or asian was something that was thoroughly earned by those communities…
Enoch Powell, a white MP who kept getting re-elected, despite his alleged racist views, despite his constituency and therefore voters being mainly non white, warned about this shit in 1968.
Needless to say, he was met with outrage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech
Comment by wimminz — August 28, 2014 @ 9:59 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell
Comment by wimminz — August 28, 2014 @ 10:17 pm
Thanks for sharing. I hardly see what is so controversial about that speech, unless one actively ignores what he is trying to communicate. In a subtle way, the speech reminds me of the foreboding of Lothrop Stoddard: http://radishmag.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/lothrop-stoddards-ghost/
What I found most reprehensible in the article was:
“In two of the cases we read, fathers tracked down their daughters and tried to remove them from houses where they were being abused, only to be arrested themselves when police were called to the scene. In a small number of cases (which have already received media attention) the victims were arrested for offences such as breach of the peace or being drunk and disorderly, with no action taken against the perpetrators of rape and sexual assault against children.”
These men, the ones most able to protect their children, were presumably taken away from their children on false rape charges in order to “protect the children”, while the state turned a blind eye to, or participated in, the sexual assault of the children they intentionally separated from their father. All of this is going on during the paedogeddon hysteria, where any man who is sent pornography anonymously against his will can be charged: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2713545/Respectable-men-convicted-possessing-extreme-pornography-sent-didn-t-know-WhatsApp.html
There is no denying that we’re far into the collapse of society at this point. We are far past the point where those in power are even pretending to obey the rule of law. The double standards applied to the common man versus the state actor are so far apart, that even the pretense of the rule of law is no longer afforded any thought. The state actors are so overconfident and reckless, that they will be completely taken off guard when their subjects no longer listen to any words they say or threats they deliver. Like a drunken sailor in a foreign port cursing out the locals and leaving their wallet on the table before passing out in an alleyway, lessons in humility will be learned the hard way.
Comment by freeman — August 28, 2014 @ 11:48 pm
“If you are interested and start doing searches on Elm House and other cases, it would appear that systemic ritualised child abuse has been known about, covered up by, and in some instances participated in, by those in power, since the 1960’s at the very *latest*… possibly long before then, who knows.”
There was an article on ZH today about a former government cybersecurity head being charged with CP: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-28/man-many-perversions-%E2%80%93-federal-cybersecurity-head-convicted-child-porn-charges?page=1
I typically do not read comments on ZH, but the comments in that article contain some of the most eye-opening and little-discussed aspects of the behavior of the elite. Among them are the Franklin cover up scandal, Marc Dutroux, and Dunblane school massacre.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/Franklin/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux#Criticism_of_police_investigations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre#Criticism_of_the_judiciary
Just how far down the rabbit hole does this go? I don’t even want to know.
Comment by freeman — August 29, 2014 @ 1:27 pm